Tex. Occ. Code § 102.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SOLICITING PATIENTS; OFFENSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly offers to pay or agrees to accept, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly any remuneration in cash or in kind or any benefit or commission to or from another for securing or soliciting a patient or patronage for or from a person licensed, certified, or registered by a state health care regulatory agency.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the person:
(1) has previously been convicted of an offense under this section; or
(2) was employed by a federal, state, or local government at the time of the offense.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 527 (H.B. 4454), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.102.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 11 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Occ. Code § 102.001. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
Human Resources Code
Occupations Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.002REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.003FEDERAL LAW; CONSTRUCTION.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.004APPLICABILITY TO ADVERTISING.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.005APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN ENTITIES.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.006FAILURE TO DISCLOSE; OFFENSE.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 102.008DISCIPLINARY ACTION.Printed as Section 102.001 or 102.006
- Tex. Occ. Code § 453.304PROHIBITED PRACTICE.Printed as Section 102.001
- Tex. Occ. Code § 605.352VIOLATION OF SECTION 102.001.Printed as Section 102.001
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